Indigeneity, Landscape and History: Adivasi Self-fashioning in India - 9781138036420

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I Other representation -- 1 Sanskritic and colonial representations of tribe -- PART II Self-representation -- 2 Meanings of self and landscape and dynamics of self-fashioning -- 3 Myth as history: the representation of self-landscape in Adivasi creation myths -- 4 Notion of territory and the formation of pre-state political order and beyond -- 5 From itinerancy to settled village life -- 6 Norms and mode of self-governance -- 7 Transformation of a hunter-forager to a cultivator -- 8 Water in Adivasi perception and the management of water resources -- 9 Forest as a marker of collective identity -- 10 Landscape and fashioning of self: the post-independence scenario -- 11 Conclusion -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index

• | Author: Asoka Kumar Sen
• | Publisher: Routledge India
• | Publication Date: Jul 27, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138036420
• | ISBN-13: 9781138036420